chambers
biographical name(Cham-bers)
Robert 1802—1871 Scottish publisher and editor
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
room; especially : bedroom
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a natural or artificial enclosed space or cavity
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a hall for the meetings of a deliberative, legislative, or judicial body
chambers
verb(Cham-bers)
to place in or as if in a chamber : house
chambers
verb(Cham-bers)
to serve as a chamber for; especially : to accommodate in the chamber of a firearm
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a space in the eye bounded in front by the cornea and in back by the iris and middle part of the lens
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a chamber of superheated liquid in which the path of an ionizing particle is made visible by a string of vapor bubbles
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a vessel containing air saturated with water vapor whose sudden expansion reveals the passage of an ionizing particle by a trail of visible droplets
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a closed space inside an engine in which fuel is burned
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a room with sound-reflecting walls used for producing hollow or echoing sound effects —often used figuratively
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a chamber in which prisoners are executed by poison gas
chambers
noun(Cham-bers)
a partially evacuated tube provided with electrodes so that its conductivity due to the ionization of the residual gas reveals the presence of ionizing radiation